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Month: August 2014

“Mixed”

  • marc
  • August 31, 2014September 1, 2014
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An Asian acquaintance recently mentioned the appalling lack of Asian representation in polls regarding race. My first thought was that that is terrible. But next, I wondered why “mixed race” is an option in so few government forms. This, despite the explosion in “mixed race” […]

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Recent Twitter Stuff

  • marc
  • August 28, 2014August 28, 2014
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Twitter is interesting in that most of it is mindless garbage. Occasionally, however, I add to the festering pile. A selection of my recent contributions: There’s a reason most people are loath to leave their children unattended around gun nuts. Ronald Reagan died for your […]

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A First in Software Purchases

  • marc
  • August 27, 2014
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Perhaps I have reached old-fuddy-duddy-hood. Or perhaps being on the downward slope on the “years remaining” hill has altered my view on these things. I spent several hours yesterday evening attempting to purchase some software. As is often the case these days, one must create […]

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Loon Funders

  • marc
  • August 18, 2014August 18, 2014
  • politics

The sources of funding for right wing nuttery seems infinite. Much of this cash is aimed at organizations that are primarily or at least overtly religious. Not just religious, but crazy religious. By that, I mean religion of the “Science is the work of the […]

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Keeping the Cogs Greased

  • marc
  • August 16, 2014August 16, 2014
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Conservative thinking: “Unless the occasional [member of out-group] gets [killed, raped] without consequence to the [real victim], how will those people be forced to remember their place?”

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